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Landscapes

Landscape photos instantly transport us to another place while delivering a visual grandeur that touches our primal DNA.
These photos occur in subject series. The Sierra Nevada mountain range can be seen from multiple perspectives – east and western sides. From the west - the photos series of the Crystal Range Mountains and The Emigrant Gap are taken from my California foothills home. From the east - the desert series were taken en route to Mono Lake which lies on the eastern side of the . The lake photos range from the Desolation Wilderness to Yosemite. Other locations and series are noted in the image descriptions.

Landscape - Crystal Range Series - The Crystal Mountain Range, a 400 mile long stretch of the Sierra Nevada range, serves as the watershed for Lake Tahoe and the Desolation Wilderness on the other side of this view.

Emigrant Gap Series - it rained all night. The moisture flowed through the canyons like finger of fog as the sun began to break above the horizon. Cisco butte - the half-dome-like peak, rightof center, marks the passage of the trail through 'The Gap' to Donner Lake and the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Snow capped Boundary Peak , which literally marks the boundary between California and Nevada, frames these fascinating sandstone cliffs just outside Benton Hot Springs, CA on a lonely stretch of state highway 120 near Benton Crossing Road. Truly in the middle-of-nowhere with a stark beauty that captures that solitary spirit.

Bridgeport, CA is a beautiful small town between the Sierra Nevada mountain range and Nevada's Great Desert Basin. Here, the rays of the sun burst through the clouds to highlight the pastoral beauty of the middle ground community.

Backyard Series - Taken in Alta Sierra California during a December snowfall, a mature buck and a doe relax in an open patch of forest. While the buck rests, surrounded by several inches of accumulated snow, the doe alertly listens for any sound that pierces the solemn quiet.
In backyard Series with both 'Summer Repose" and "A Winter's Day in the Backyard"

Backyard Series - Two does languish in a sea of delicious spring grasses. This scene represents the summer version of "Winter Search." The pair side-by-side tell silent stories from the lives of a local mule deer herd.

Landscape Folder - Highway 6, Nevada-California Border on way to Mono Lake- Nevada Desert Basin on lonely highway 6 leading to Mono Lake. Once a 500 feet deep lake, the broad, seemingly infinite desert basin, stretch hundreds of miles north, south and east of this point..

Along Nevada State Highway 95 one can see explicit examples of the ancient seabeds that formed today's desert basin uplifted vertically in striated bands scoring the surrounding hillsides which rise straight up from the surrounding desert sands.

Landscape Series - Mono Lake lies east of Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada moutain range. It marks the beginning of the vast desert Great Basin which spans from Idaho to Arizona. This photo adds space and openness to an office or closed space.

Monitor Summit marks the exit (CA State highway 89) from the Sierra Nevada mountains down to Antelope Valley and highway 395 to Mono Lake. The summit offers views of the rich valley farmland and the distant peaks of Boundary Peak (center) which marks the state boundary between California and Nevada.

Landscape Folder - Dardanellies is a shallow, warm lake at the foot of a granite dome makes for outstanding swimming and beautiful views as well as the opportunity to climb up the face of the dome. Located in Desolation WIlderness, CA.

Landscape Folder - Loch Leven Lakes offers three levels of granduer - Lower Loch Leven, Middle Loch Leven and High Lock Leven. Ironically, the lower lake is the highest altitude and High Loch Leven is down hill from Lower and Middle Lock Leven. Go figure.
This is a tributary of the Middle Loch Leven. All three offer great swimming, great campsites and stunning views.

Retired US Navy Chief Dick Hegg began running the Longbranch Saloon in 1971. This photo was taken in 2005. Dick passed away in 2008. Located in Lunig, NV, whose population varies from 35 to 95 but usually leaning towards the former, the Long Branch remains a small time legend among photographers and historians. For more on the Dick and The Long Branch, visit photographer Larry Angiers site at http://www.angier-fox.com. You’ll also find Larry’s live link in my ‘Link’ Folder.

Landscape Folder - a favored cross country ski route that follows the Bear River near Cisco Butte and the Emigrant Gap. Pioneer wagon trains followed this route in the 1850's. This photo shows the last vestiges of the prior sunset photo.